Mario

Hey guys, you’ll really “jump” for this one. You don’t have to be eating “mushrooms” to appreciate how “koopa kool” this Super Mario Brothers gingerbread house looks.
Don’t bother “bowsering” around in “another castle” for a better house, okay? You’d be in a “cloud world” if you got to eat some of… Read More

Nothing says “well dressed man” like fine cufflinks. On the other hand, nothing says “I have no desire to date” like these cufflinks. Available from Etsy, everyone’s favorite peddler of homemade haute couture, these clay Mario Mushrooms come in your choice of a pair of green or red. Or hell, mix the two if you want. You’re the master of your… Read More

Shigeru Miyamoto is a gaming god. He made some of the defining games of our generation and essentially defined the world as we know it when it comes to platformers and, to an extent, RPGs. That said, homeboy has been slacking lately and he admits it. For example, he wants to make his games good at the core and not just, to use his cooking metaphor, sauce a nasty piece of meat in hopes of making… Read More

An almost foolproof method for hacking your Wii using the Twilight hack is out and looks to be the best and easiest way to mod your Wii I’ve seen. After adding the Homebrew Channel you simply download the loader, install CIOS and DVDX, install Wii loader, and burn a patched ISO to a DVD. Sound hard? It isn’t but you should probably stick to Mario Party.
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Like all great men, Mr. T is in his twilight. As such, he is being trotted out to amuse geeks who barely remember him from the 1980s and are using his voice in GPS devices. Navtones used this excellent content to amuse us by making the poor old gentleman sound like he’s telling Mario where to go. It’s a sad day for novelty acts. Read More

Yum. Look at this deliciously entertaining wedding cake, will you? It’s like Mario Kart meets Super Mario Galaxy meets whichever game features the Princess’ palace. Smart of them to move into her place, too, since Mario lives in a garden level apartment in Brooklyn (as you’ll remember from the Super Mario Brothers Super Show). Peach’s place is probably a lot nicer… Read More

Audrey loves her kids very much. For her son Tanner’s birthday she created a Mario-themed party complete with cool invitations, costumes, coin boxes and even Koopa decorations. She bought green and red hats, marked them with L and M, and made funny mustaches. She then bought some goodie bags and even made a supercool cake with Mario on it.
Let’s just say nobody ever made me a… Read More

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There’s a company in the UK called SuperMario Plumbing and Heating. The owner, Mariusz “Mario” Gruzka, though likely not Italian, could perhaps pass as a real life version of the Mario that most of us know and love. He’s no Captain Lou Albano from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show (remember Zelda Fridays?), but he’ll do.
There’s some loose talk going around… Read More

In case you’re tired of the Wii’s slim, understated style, now is your change to add a 3D mario busting out of it along with all the garish color the flying plumber is associated with. Be aware, this isn’t like a henna tattoo for your Wii, it appears to be permanent. I like the part of the instructions where Mario appears to be encased in a Carbonite Wii.
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Provided you can ignore the discomforting sing-along soundtrack that kicks in around 29 seconds, this video is more than capable of eating up a few minutes of your day. It shows Mario (then many Marios) being controlled by some sort of hand movement recognition technology. Think Sony EyeToy, but, somehow, more gimmicky.
Wow that reminds me of LittleBigPlanet, a game I’m actually… Read More

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“You could transplant the head of Josef Goebbels on the body of a preying mantis and it would still compare favorably to Mario Sunshine.” Good lord. I’m home among my people.
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I can only guess that when Super Mario eats too much pizza, his dreams look more like this than Super Mario Bros. 2. I don’t know what’s going on here, but it gets better and better as it goes on. I really want to play this game. It’s times like this I wish I’d payed better attention in Japanese class, but it has something to do with Syobon Action. Read More

This Mario Christmas stocking reminds me of a Leonardo one I had as a youngster. I used to get quality toys in that stocking, too, like X-Men action figures and X-Men action figure accessories. Created by Greg, a certain loyal Kotaku reader (who isn’t one?), it depicts our favorite plumber in a Kuribo’s Shoe, an exceedingly rare power-up from Super Mario Bros. 3.
It seems to me that… Read More

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Joel likes to think of these sorts of things as hobbies, which I’m inclined to agree with in regards to LEGOs but this is too much. I prefer this video anyway. Read More

Come back with me to a simpler time. It was twenty years ago, I was about 12, and the coolest stuff I owned was a huge set of G.I. Joe figures and, as I recall, an NES. I was late to the video game party mostly because I used my Atari 800XL a lot at the time and I recall getting the Bridgelayer vehicle and, that year, a few NES games. I could spend hours setting up my guys in battle formation… Read More

"It’s me…Mario!" That’s Charles Martinet talking. Upon first glance, I noticed that this clip is damn near 10 minutes long and thought that it might drag on and on but it’s actually got some pretty interesting factoids and tidbits about how game development and video game voice-overs work.
WiiWii interviews Charles Martinet, voice of Mario, Nintendo [YouTube]… Read More